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Mothurapur dairy cow trading hub

Mothurapur: From a quiet village to a dairy cow trading hub

Mothurapur village, under Chatmohar upazila of Pabna, has transformed over the past two decades from a poverty-stricken settlement into a bustling hub for dairy cow trading.
27 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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District admin moves to lease out parts of rivers again

Pabna district administration has issued a circular to lease out different portions of rivers across the district, naming them as enclosed waterbodies, for fish farming.
1 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Onion farmers forced to buy fertiliser above govt rates

Price hikes drive up production costs, dampen early cultivation
28 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Encroachment, pollution choking the Boral

Rampant encroachment and indiscriminate pollution have long been choking the Boral River in the Chalan Beel area of Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila by restricting its natural flow.
19 October 2025, 19:44 PM
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Echoes of grandeur linger in Haturia’s fading palaces

Tucked away on the banks of the Jamuna in Pabna’s Bera upazila, the remote village of Haturia holds on to a remarkable past.
10 October 2025, 19:09 PM
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Emergency care eludes mental health patients

Mental health in Bangladesh remains a topic many find difficult to discuss even in 2025, entangled in social stigma and widespread misconceptions.
9 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Illegal township sprouts on railway land

An illegal township has sprouted on around 150 acres of railway land previously leased out for agriculture and fish farming in Bhangura upazila of Pabna.
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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How duck farming reshaped Chalan Beel’s economy

When monsoon waters from surrounding rivers pour into Chalan Beel, the vast wetland once famed as the “House of Fish” comes alive. For generations, fishing in the wet season and field farming in the dry season sustained its people. In recent decades, thousands of ducks have joined the ecosystem, gliding across the waters in their flocks, lifting people out of poverty and reshaping the economy.
25 September 2025, 18:00 PM
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Single hybrid farm changes face of Ishwardi upazila

Agriculture is a key sector of Bangladesh’s economy but most people never dream of becoming a farmer as even those with the slightest education hope to make a living through other professions of more repute.
25 November 2022, 03:00 AM
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Once a morgue, now a diabetes centre

An abandoned one-storey building of the health department on Abdul Hamid road in Pabna was mostly used to keep dead bodies. But it all changed in 1984 when a few youths came together and turned the ghostly establishment into a facility to treat diabetes patients.
13 November 2022, 18:00 PM
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Pabna’s Benarasi Palli being reclaimed by nature!

The Benarasi Palli in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila has remained inactive since its establishment in 2004 due to a serious lack of initiative among the authorities and weavers involved.
13 November 2022, 05:00 AM
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State-owned sugar mills: Closed to cut costs but continue to incur loss

Six loss-making sugar mills owned by the state were shuttered in 2020 so that they may undergo modernisation and eventually become commercially viable once again.
3 November 2022, 02:20 AM
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A Rooppur milestone

The second and final reactor of the Rooppur power plant will be installed today -- marking the most important development in the construction of the country’s first nuclear power-source.
18 October 2022, 18:00 PM
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Hilsa netting on despite ban

Many fishers in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna are netting hilsa in the Padma river despite the ongoing 22-day ban, enforced from October 7.
17 October 2022, 18:00 PM
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Dairy farming sets example in an Ishwardi village

Amirul Islam of Burampur village in Lokhmikunda union under Ishwardi upazila could not continue his academic career beyond the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) level due to his father’s death in 1990.
13 October 2022, 03:10 AM
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Mental healthcare grossly neglected

Pabna Mental Hospital, once considered the most reliable mental-health facility in the country, has seen its service crumble in recent decades.
8 October 2022, 18:00 PM
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Death of 3 peacekeepers: Identify the perpetrators

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Central African authorities to spare no effort in identifying the perpetrators who attacked the Bangladeshi peacekeepers and bring them to justice swiftly.
5 October 2022, 18:00 PM
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The journey goes on, but with risks

Those who travel by train between Dhaka and northern or southern districts of the country have to prepare for an ordeal when they reach a century-old rail bridge in Pabna’s Bhangura upazila.
5 October 2022, 18:00 PM
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The champ is getting her dream home, finally

At last, a dispute regarding the prime minister’s donated land for SAFF Women’s Championship  winner Akhi Khatun’s family has been settled.
28 September 2022, 18:00 PM
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Ranesh Maitra no more

Ekushey Padak-winging journalist and columnist Ranesh Maitra died at a hospital in the capital early yesterday. He was 89.
26 September 2022, 18:00 PM
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Is this the way to treat a champion?

When the entire nation has been celebrating the victory of female football players for winning SAFF Women’s Championship, footballer Akhi Khatun’s family from Sirajganj’s Shahjadpur upazila is facing legal trouble for a land gifted to her by the prime minister.
23 September 2022, 18:00 PM
SAFF champ Akhi’s family in legal trouble

SAFF champ Akhi’s family in legal trouble over Sirajganj land gifted by PM

When the entire nation has been celebrating the victory of female football players for winning SAFF Women's Championship, footballer Akhi Khatun’s family Sirajganj’s Shahjadpur upazila is facing legal trouble for a land gifted to her by the prime minister.
23 September 2022, 09:49 AM
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Pabna mental hospital: SOS from a troubled facility

Pabna Mental Hospital has been struggling to provide services to patients for at least two months due to the lack of supply of necessary food, medicine and other materials.
13 September 2022, 02:40 AM
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Solop buttermilk, a brand in and of itself

People across Bangladesh have long been enjoying two traditional buttermilk products called “ghol” and “matha” thanks to their unique taste and texture and so, makers of these treats in Solop village under Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj never compromise on quality, helping them keep the inherited business alive for more than 100 years.
12 September 2022, 02:50 AM
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Liquid milk prices rise again

The price of liquid milk has again increased by Tk 10 per litre while half-litre packs will now cost Tk 5 more as leading producers have raised the maximum retail price of their products by 12.5 per cent. 
27 August 2022, 18:00 PM
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Scanty rainfall affects jute retting

Growers are facing trouble in retting raw jute as a lack of rainfall has reduced the availability of natural waterbodies, affecting the quality of the eco-friendly fibre being produced, according to farmers.
12 August 2022, 02:30 AM
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Harding Bridge: River erosion spotted near two pillars

The ground near two pillars of the Hardinge Bridge, the longest steel-made railway bridge, over the Padma is eroding at Sara and Rooppur points.
8 August 2022, 18:00 PM
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Production at Pabna BSCIC estate falls for power cuts

Production at the BSCIC industrial estate in Pabna, the country’s biggest food processing zone operated by the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC), has fallen significantly due to recent power outages of up to three times daily, sources said.
1 August 2022, 03:30 AM

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